Van Halen - Up For Breakfast

Song - Up For Breakfast
Album - The Best Of Both Worlds
Year - 2004
Artist - Van Halen
Guitar - Eddie Van Halen
Keyboards - Eddie Van Halen
Bass - Eddie Van Halen
Drums - Alex Van Halen
Vocals - Sammy Hagar

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Van
• Halen
• best
• of
• both
• worlds
• Up
• For
• Breakfast

[TuffMedicine]

I love this tune. Only angry virgins don't "get it".

[alagogo]

music wise it's great ! lyric wise, it dosn't work. hagar / vanhalen were at a creative end when they made this

[nissansentraglx]

why did ed decide to play the bass when recording this? why couldn't they have mike do it? oh that's right, ed and al were unhappy that mike went on the sammy and dave tour. thanks for stabbing mike in the back ed. now get back to your drinking.

[gregv2k]

Not sure why the internet inspires people to go to extremes - but most VH songs are reviewed as "best ever" or "worst." This is far from VHs worst of the Hagar years -- see "Inside" from 5150 for that distinction. It's not even in the handful of VHs "overall worst," where songs like "How Many Say I" reside. It's actually a pretty good song with Hagar's typical ham-fisted sexual metaphors. In that sense it's classic Hagar-era VH. The biggest culprit here is probably the mix, which is not good.

[Scoffman5150]

The intro does remind me of "Why Can't This Be Love".

[thetofuking]

i don't understand the hate for this!! the lyrics aren't as bad as mentioned

[Gravelgutband]

To the people dissing Sammy, Eddie helped write the lyrics to this song, it's a fact

[mesarock2vh]

Very shitty tune plus Hagar fucking it up some more doesn't help it any!

[brianbela]

The keyboard sound/intro is a direct rip off of "Why cant this be love"??Thats all I could think when I heard this.And terrible lyrics--- lie a bad rehash of "poundcake"These guys were out of ideas on this one.

[aguirrej12]

This song makes me laugh.......really hard

[Barnum5150]

@icetrucker1956: Oh, I understand it. This song was made at VH's worst period, the last Sammy Concert. Sammy didn't lose his voice or touch, but it sure wasn't as good as it was during any of his work with VH. Eddie became a complete asshole, wanted to control everything, and didn't really care about making good music. He also didn't even let Michael play the bass parts. That leaves Alex as the only one left to be awesome, and he, as great as he is, can't make or break a song by himself.

[Icetrucker1956]

There may not be any perfect songs, but there are a lot of great songs and this is one of them. NEVER CRITICISE WHAT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. As far as weird lyrics is concerned, they've been by every band that ever did anything of note from the Beatles to Green Day. In case you don't get it, the Beatles weren't the first and it's never going to stop. Whatever great song there ever was, some airhead is bound to find something they don't like. Just as I don't like Hip Hop, but I never criticise it.